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With the kiddos down early tonight, and our little guy's room update on my mind, I did a little window shopping for artwork at Etsy. Don't you just love this chalkboard art from Chalk Chalk? So modern and fun, and perfect for our family of bike-lovers.
Score a print for $20 or an original for $125 (steal!)...
Image credits: Chalk Chalk
When I was a little girl, I was forbidden to have a Barbie. My parents had this thing about bringing inaccurate female stereotypes into the house, and so I suffered an incomplete girlhood (sniff). As it turned out, after a brief moment of Goth-ness in high school, I ended up being just as girly as the girliest girls out there (seriously, if there was even a 1% chance that I wouldn't be laughed right out of the gates of the esteemed institution of higher ed at which I work, I would be sportin' my Blair Waldorf headbands daily). Anyhoo...my heart let out an extra thump-thump the other day when I got my weekly e-mail from Jonathan Adler announcing his new line of Barbie-inspired bath accessories. Seriously, what could be better than pink lacquer in my house full of boys? I might just pick up the Adler-donned Barbie and her very own mini-Lampert Sofa since I never got my Barbie-fix growing up.
Image credit: Jonathan Adler
After two years, we're finally hitting our decorating stride and beginning to make our house feel like a home. Next project on the list? Our youngest son's room, woefully ignored up until this point, except for a quick trip to IKEA for a big-kid bed when we started to worry he was going to crack his head open from jumping out of his crib. As I said, woefully ignored.
I'm not quite sure where we're going to go with his room, but I'm definitely going to integrate this super-simple (and budget!) window treatment idea:
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Grommet panels hung on a shaker peg board -- brilliant, right? Easy-to-install and totally sophisticated. Love it. Image credit: Coastal Living
I'm back!
Since I've spent the past month focused on the brand new world of having a school-age kid, I thought I would dedicate my first post-hiatus post to that very kid -- our sweet guy, Weston.
Weston is all about the sensory experience of his surroundings and is a big fan of "being cozy" in particular. In our house, jeans must be fleece-lined, socks must be super-soft and even the towels need to meet the approval of our resident King of Cozy. So a couple of years ago as Wes was transitioning into a big-kid bed, I was lucky enough to stumble upon the holy grail of coziness as I was shopping for his bedding. The chamois fitted sheets from Pottery Barn Kids are made from the same material as many of their baby blankets, ultra-soft but not overly warm. Wes loves them so much that the only way to convince him to change back to cotton sheets is by hitting a heat wave...
Pottery Barn Kids Chamois Fitted Sheets are available in Twin through King in tons of colors, and through October 29, take advantage of their Warm & Cozy Event to get 20% off all chamois bedding!
Image credit: Pottery Barn Kids
Just a couple of months after my husband and moved into our first home, giant metal fence posts showed up on the side property line separating our house from our neighbor. First, we were concerned -- had we done something wrong? Had we offended him? But then we got annoyed. We were first time homeowners, so we didn't really know any better, but it just felt wrong that a neighbor would but up a giant, u-g-l-y, chain-link fence in the front of our property without, at the very least, leaving a note on our door.
So we gathered up our joint gusto and headed next door, trying to convince him that the chain-link monstrosity was not the way to go. How about a natural barrier of shrubs? Um, no, the decision has already been made to have a fence. Then how about a nice extension of our beautiful backyard cedar fence...our treat? Sorry, the posts are already in and my mother is paying for it. (hmmm...)
We'll never really know why he (or his mother, I suppose) wanted to put up that dang thing, but we sure wish we had known about Fence Fabric at the time, because a faux stone wall, some everlasting foliage, or heck, even a cow pasture would've been better looking than that thing he put up.
{Thanks, Rochelle of Studio G, for the great resource!}
Photo credit: "Brent Wood Wall" by Fence Fabric